Raj Vir Singh Yadav
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Professor Raj Vir Singh Yadav (born 27 July 1937 in village Nauliharnathpur of district Budaun, Uttar Pradesh, India) was a surgeon who was a pioneer in kidney transplantation and served the Indian medical fraternity for over 45 years.
Commonly known as Dr RVS Yadav, he has been honoured by the establishment of the Raj Vir Singh Yadav Foundation, which aims to intervene in the propagation and conduct of medical-cum-scientific education, awareness, research and practice. It also further seeks to intervene in activities pertaining to the socio-economic assistance, development and general welfare-cum-empowerment of the rural sector.
Professor Raj Vir Singh Yadav was awarded the MBBS in 1961 and the MS (Surgery) in 1964 respectively from the King George’s Medical College, Lucknow University, Lucknow (KGMC). He received the FICS (General Surgery) in 1974 from the International College of Surgeons and the FACS (General Surgery) in 1977 from the American College of Surgeons.
Subsequent to his graduation, he worked with premiere teaching institutions of the country including the KGMC, AIIMS, BJMC and the PGIMER. He spent over three and a half years at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne University and the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide, Australia for receiving exclusive training in kidney transplantation and dialysis. He received the opportunity to learn the art and science of transplant surgery from several world class experts in the field during the course of his stay in Australia. His involvement in the specialty of kidney transplantation hails back to 1967 when he served as co-investigator to an ICMR Scheme on kidney preservation and kidney transplantation in dogs. Since then he had been continuously involved with and worked for the progress of the specialty along with the practice of general surgery.
At the time of his demise, he was the senior most transplant surgeon in India. On his return from Australia he did the first hemo-dialysis at Ahmedabad. In 1973 he performed the first human kidney transplantation at the PGIMER and laid the foundation of the first transplant unit of the region. The unit he established continues to impart training to surgical and medical students at the postgraduate level besides nursing and para medical staff. Dr. Yadav trained over 25 young surgeons in the field of transplantation besides numerous nephrologists and nursing teams. In recognition of the services of Dr. Raj Yadav, the Government of India sanctioned the first of its kind center for transplantation at the PGIMER where research training and service was sought to be provided under one roof. The center is operational.
Dr. Raj Yadav has over a thousand clinical and experimental kidney transplants to his credit and several hundred allied surgical procedures. His patient population hailed from U.P, Delhi, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Bihar, Tamil Nadu, Chandigarh, Haryana, Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir and overseas. A number of his patients till date after successful kidney transplantation are in their first to twentieth years and well rehabilitated.
This surgery, which is very complicated, major and delicate requires long hours and prolonged and meticulous work on and off the operation table. Dr. Raj Yadav assisted several centers at Bombay, Hyderabad, Jaipur and Bangalore in launching the transplant surgery program. He visited several institutes demonstrating surgical techniques and delivering lectures on the subject for the benefit of professional colleagues. His patients hailed from all walks of life including farmers, laborers, teachers, housewives, students engineers, doctors, clerks and executives. He was a dedicated research worker. He had established a very active experimental transplant laboratory where three to four research workers were actively involved in a number of projects.
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